scoffing in English

verb

1

speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.

department officials scoffed at the allegations

synonyms: mock, deride, ridicule, sneer at, jeer at, jibe at, taunt, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, scorn, laugh to scorn, dismiss, make light of, belittle, pooh-pooh

2

eat (something) quickly and greedily.

she scoffed down several chops

noun

• jeering, jeer, scoff, mockery

verb

• mock, deride, ridicule, sneer at, jeer at, jibe at, taunt, make fun of, poke fun at, laugh at, scorn, laugh to scorn, dismiss, make light of, belittle, pooh-pooh
• jeer, gibe, barrack, flout
• flout

Use "scoffing" in a sentence

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2. What effect will scoffing have on the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy?

3. No fear of men’s scoffing, his courage Appalleth, As he stands the oppressed and the friendless beside

4. He had always been irreligious, scoffing good - naturedly at the sky - pilots and their immortality of the soul.

5. Even though he came late in the succession of inventors, Bell had to run the gantlet of scoffing and Adversity

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7. His zeal if enlisted on rectitude's side No fear of men's scoffing, his courage Appalleth, As he stands the oppressed and the friendless beside

8. Agnostic noun sceptic, cynic, scoffer, doubter, disbeliever, unbeliever, doubting Thomas, Pyrrhonist He was, if not an atheist, an Agnostic. adjective sceptical, questioning, doubting, cynical, doubtful, scoffing, unconvinced, disbelieving, incredulous, quizzical, mistrustful, unbelieving She grew up in an Agnostic …